R.I.P. Wes Craven: All The Women Who Died Gruesome Deaths In The Scream Movies

Master of Horror Wes Craven—most famous for the film Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream movie franchise—died last Sunday, August 30 because of brain cancer.

An institution in the business of scaring people shitless, Craven carved out a name for himself after unleashing the menacingly iconic Freddy Krueger to invade the nightmares of audiences the world over. With the original Scream, a box-office hit in 1996, the maestro of madness was able to inject the saturated genre with an updated wit.

Scream’s unique meta-twist was that the characters were aware of the conventions, rules, and tropes that drove a horror movie. They knew how the fuck they were going to get killed, but that didn’t change the fact that were going to get maimed, murdered, and gutted. Oftentimes, they were girls—pretty ones.

Anyone who has seen a Scream movie can attest to the fact that Craven was quite brutal, never scrimping on the gore, especially when it came to his always-sexy female victims. So in celebration of his work and his ability to create a cinematic death scene, here’s a rundown (more like body count) of all the poor women of the Scream franchise who lost their lives to this bard of terror.

R.I.P., Wes Craven. You will live on through many nightmares and screams in the night.

1) DREW BARRYMORE AS CASEY BECKER IN SCREAMDeath by: Stabbed and hung from a tree

All she wanted to do was spend the evening watching scary movies with her boyfriend. But after being stalked through the phone and quizzed about her horror film knowledge, the angelic stunner becomes the Ghostface Killer’s first victim.

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2) ROSE MCGOWAN AS TATUM IN SCREAMDeath by: Head crushed by garage door

One of the franchise’s most iconic deaths comes in the form of well-endowed Tatum, Sidney Prescott’s sassy BFF, getting squished by a garage door after going for a beer run. Alcohol and ample bosom: not the best combo in surviving a slasher.

If you thought that only curvy tarts with bombshell assets end up cut up like fish, here’s an example of a cute brunette biting the dust.

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10) SHENAE GRIMES AS TRUDIE AND LUCY HALE AS SHERIE IN SCREAM 4Death by: A stab to the chest and a throat-slash respectively

These popular television seductresses were used in the opening of the last installment of the franchise, which featured a movie within a movie within the movie. Sound complicated? Once you watch this sequel, the metafictional madness becomes pretty self-explanatory.